When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Localities "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Localities
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Man and wife make one fool. You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Localities blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Localities
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Localities Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Localities
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Localities Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Localities
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Localities In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Localities
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Localities This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Localities
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Localities Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Localities
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Localities Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Localities
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Localities Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Localities
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Localities
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Localities Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Localities
